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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments Los Llanos--the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia--are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture) by Peter Wade Publisher Comments Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows how the concept of blackness and discrimination are deeply embedded in different social levels and contexts -- from region to neighborhood, and from politics and economics to housing... (read more) List Price $33.25 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Oblivion: A Memoir by Hector Abad Publisher Comments Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the authors father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden Publisher Comments Killing Pablo is the story of the fifteen-month manhunt for Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, whose escape from his lavish, mansionlike jail drove a nation to the brink of chaos. In a gripping, up-close account, acclaimed journalist Mark... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Law of the Jungle: The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages, and Buried Treasure by John Otis Publisher Comments “Truth be told, they were mostly in it for the money” On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors on a recon patrol crash-landed in the jungle-covered mountains of Colombia. Within minutes, FARC guerrillas... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle by Ingrid Betancourt Publisher Comments "Betancourt's riveting account...is an unforgettable epic of moral courage and human endurance." -Los Angeles Times In the midst of her campaign for the Colombian presidency in 2002, Ingrid Betancourt traveled into a military-controlled region,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden Publisher Comments A riveting nonfiction thriller reveals the inside story of how U.S. special forces and intelligence agencies led an extensive manhunt to capture and contain Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, one of the most powerful and wealthiest outlaws... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $11.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Hostage Nation: Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs by Victoria Bruce Publisher Comments A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle. On July 2, 2008, when three American private... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Captive: 2,147 Days of Terror in the Colombian Jungle by Clara Rojas Publisher Comments On a fateful day in February 2002, campaign manager Clara Rojas accompanied longtime friend and presidential hopeful Ingrid Betancourt into an area controlled by the powerful leftist guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind by Silvana Paternostro Publisher Comments “Intimate, emotion-saturated portrait . . . the flavors and the colors are vivid . . . [A] compelling picture of contemporary Colombia and the roots of its problems . . . a gift for the rest of us.”—William Grimes, The New York... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Evil Hour in Colombia by Forrest Hylton Publisher Comments A history of the Latin American nation from the mid-nineteenth century to today traces how the nation has been marked by violent political conflicts, radical-popular mobilizations, and reactionary repression practices, in an account that also covers such... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle by Marc Gonsalves Publisher Comments On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors--Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell--crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they awoke covered in blood with automatic rifles pointing at... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Law of the Jungle: The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages, and Buried Treasure by John Otis Publisher Comments In the tradition of Mark Bowden's bestsellers "Killing Pablo" and "Blackhawk Down" comes a wild and riveting true story of kidnapping, drug trafficking, and communist revolutionary guerrillas in the jungles of Central America. bw photo insert.... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia by Ingrid Betancourt Publisher Comments Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and a presidential candidate in Colombia, grew up among diplomats, literati, and artists who congregated at her parents' elegant home in Paris, France. Her father served as Colombia's ambassador to UNESCO and her mother, a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Law of the Jungle: The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages, and Buried Treasure by John Otis Publisher Comments On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors crash-landed in the jungle-covered mountains of Colombia. Within minutes, FARC guerrillas swarmed the wreckage and killed the American pilot and a Colombian crew member, then... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Until Death Do Us Part: My Struggle to Reclaim Colombia by Ingrid Betancourt Publisher Comments A compelling memoir by a Colombian presidential candidate details her early years in Paris, where she was raised amidst diplomats, literary masters, and artists, and her return to the turbulent political scene of her native Colombia, where, as a senator... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle by Ingrid Betancourt Publisher Comments Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing powerful teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in Bogotá, raised in France, Ingrid Betancourt at the age of thirty-two gave up a life of comfort... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Until Death Do Us Part (02 Edition) by Ingrid Betancourt Publisher Comments In 2002, Colombian senator, anticorruption crusader, and presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by leftist guerrillas. She was their prisoner for more than six years. Until now. Until Death Do Us Part is the deeply personal autobiography... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Walking Ghosts by Steven Dudley Publisher Comments Discusses Colombia's civil war, examining its causes and explaining why the war continues, focusing on the history of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and its Patriotic Union party.... (read more) Your price: $34.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Kidnapped: A Diary of My 373 Days in Captivity by Leszli Kalli Publisher Comments A collection of personal and spiritual journal entries and letters, penned by a woman who was kidnapped and held for more than a year by a leftist guerilla group, documents the hijacking of her airplane, their grueling survival struggles in the Colombian... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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